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OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — An 18-year-old man is accused of shooting to death another man in Ottumwa. A tipster reported the shooting at a home Thursday night, and police found the wounded man there. He was taken to Ottumwa Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name hasn’t been released. Police found the car driven by the shooting suspect and arrested him early Friday. He’s been identified as 18-year-old Jacob Heckethorn.

Wapello County District Court records say he’s already pleaded not guilty to the charges: first-degree murder and attempted murder. Heckethorn was being held on a cash-only bail of $1 million. His next court appearance is scheduled for Friday.

Police in Creston report 48-year old Robert Graham, of Creston, was arrested late Friday night on a U-S Marshall’s warrant for Distribution of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography. Graham was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting transfer to the custody of U-S Marshall’s. Also arrested Friday, was 28-year old Spencer Leitzel, of Creston. He was taken into custody on a Union County warrant for Domestic Abuse Assault. Leitzel was later released on a $300 bond.

Sunday evening, Creston Police arrested 49-year old Victor Thatcher, of Creston, on a Union County warrant for Violation of a No Contact/Protective Order. Thatcher was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting a bond hearing. There were also two incidents reported recently, in Creston. A woman reported Friday morning, that sometime over the past two weeks, someone took a ceiling fan from her apartment. The loss was estimated at $45. And, early Sunday afternoon, a man reported sometime threw a rock through his shed window in the 600 Block of S. Elm Street. The damage amounted to $150.

The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A longtime Sioux City food distribution facility will be closing next week, affecting the jobs of 30 people. Braunger Foods is shutting down the facility Sept. 7. The company is a wholesale distributor of meat and other food products to restaurants and has operated in Sioux City for nearly 130 years. Rosemont, Illinois-based US Foods bought Braunger Foods last summer.

US Foods spokeswoman Sara Matheu says 14 employees will be leaving the company or applying for new roles at the company’s Sioux Falls, South Dakota, facility, while 16 others will be added to the Sioux Falls staff.

(Radio Iowa) — Former Iowa Congressman Leonard Boswell and his wife, Dody, were buried side-by-side on Saturday in Lamoni. Eighty-four-year-old Leonard Boswell died August 17th after a long battle with a rare form of cancer. His 82-year-old wife, Dody — a retired teacher, died early Saturday morning after a prolonged illness. State Representative Scott Ourth is a presiding elder in the Community of Christ Church. He welcomed several hundred to a Graceland University auditorium late Saturday morning for a service honoring the couple. “It’s rather poignant that we would have this here,” Ourth said. “Leonard and Dody met on this campus. They fell in love here. They carved their names out on the north wall of the Administration Building when they decided to get married, which is a tradition around this place.”

Dody Boswell had been hospitalized earlier this month. Former Senator Tom Harkin, one of the eulogists, noted that when Leonard Boswell was flown from Lamoni to the same Des Moines hospital, the couple was reunited.”They brought Dody into the room with Leonard and she reached over and grabbed his hand. She knew that he was going to go,” Harkin said. “After Leonard passed, Dody was heard saying in a sort of subconscious realm: ‘I’ve got to find Daddy.’ She knew that Leonard was gone and she had to be with him.”

Retired Colonel Charlie Teague — like Boswell — was the pilot and commander of an attack helicopter unit in Vietnam. He also paid tribute to his long-time friend with a eulogy. Teague brought up a mission Boswell was assigned in February of 1969 — to spray the chemical known as “Agent Orange” from his helicopter. “Every man in that aircraft was soaked, saturated with Agent Orange. The strange but true fact is that Leonard Boswell was mortally wounded by the spray from that aircraft on that occasions,” Teague said, overcome with emotion. “Even though his wound was fatal, it did not take his life until this month.”

After retiring from the military, Boswell took up farming in southern Iowa. Boswell, a Democrat, served a dozen years in the state senate and 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. The eulogists praised Boswell as a military hero who was awarded two distinguished flying cross and as a peacemaker in politics who sought bipartisan agreements. Harkin noted Boswell was a fine auctioneer, too. “I think our political party will miss his ability to raise money at events by auctioning off worthless pieces of junk,” Harkin said.

Boswell once sold the cheap tie Harkin was wearing at a party banquet for 250 dollars. Leonard and Dody Boswell were married nearly 63 years. The tenants of the couple’s Christian faith were emphasized at their funeral. Dody Boswell’s sister sang an African American spiritual in tribute. Two Iowa National Guard helicopters flew in formation over the Lamoni cemetery Saturday for the couple’s burial, then the family hosted a celebration at the Boswell farm near Davis City. Republican Governor Kim Reynolds and Congressman David Young, a Republican who represents the district Boswell once served, attended Saturday’s funeral, as did former Democratic Congressmen Bruce Braley (BRAY-lee) and Neal Smith as well as current Congressman Dave Loebsack (LOHB-sack), a Democrat from Iowa City. Several state senators who served in the Iowa legislature with Boswell attended as well.

Police in Red Oak arrested a local man, Sunday night, on an assault charge. 20-year old Dawson Allen Squires, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 8:25-p.m., for Simple Assault. Squires was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.

A crash between two SUV’s Sunday afternoon in northern Iowa’s Humboldt County, left a teenager dead and two adults injured. All three were from neighboring Kossuth County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2008 Pontiac Torrent driven by 16-year old Olivia Bachman, of Whitemore, was traveling west on Humboldt County Road C-54 at around 4:50-p.m., Sunday, when she failed to stop at the intersection with County Road P-66, south of Thor.

Her SUV collided at the intersection with a northbound 2010 Toyota Highlander, driven by 64-year old Paul Doster, of Algona. Both vehicles entered the northwest corner of the intersection, where the Pontiac struck a utility pole and rolled onto its top. The Toyota came to rest in the ditch.

Bachman, who was wearing her seat belt, died at the scene. Doster, and his passenger, 63-year old Susan Doster, of Algona, both of whom were wearing seat belts, were transported to separate hospitals. Paul Doster was taken to the Humboldt Hospital by Humboldt Ambulance, while Susan Doster was flown by Mercy Air Ambulance to the Mayo Hospital, in Rochester, MN.

Bachman had just begun her Junior year at Algona High School. In an email sent to parents late Sunday night the school says that grief counselors will be on hand over the next few days to assist students in any way needed.

Assisting the State Patrol at the scene, was fire crews from Humboldt, Renwick and Thor, and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — The father of the 20-year-old Iowa woman whose body was found in a cornfield last week wants people to remember her by “celebrating something wonderful.” Rob Tibbetts urged the hundreds of people at his daughter, Mollie Tibbetts’, funeral on Sunday afternoon to remember her passion for life and her desire to help others.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An elections worker with the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office says a petition seeking to add a conservative candidate for attorney general to the November ballot appears to have fallen short of the 1,500 signatures needed. Elections assistant Wes Hicok says the group turned in pages of signatures ahead of the 5 p.m. Saturday deadline, with a formal review of the paperwork taking place Monday. The effort aimed to put attorney Patrick Anderson, of Des Moines, on the ballot.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are looking for new ways to fight a fast-spreading tree species that crowds out other plants, destroys valuable ranchland and threatens the Great Plains from Texas to the Dakotas. Eastern red cedar trees are native to the Plains but have spread out of control without the natural prairie fires that kept them in check centuries ago. The issue has caught the attention of Nebraska lawmakers, who will convene a hearing Friday at the state Capitol.

PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) — A Pleasant Hill man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend’s father. The Des Moines Register reports that 27-year-old Ricky St. John was sentenced Friday. In a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the November death of 46-year-old Timothy Neal. St. John had been charged with first-degree murder in the case.

(Radio Iowa) — Iowa’s political community is mourning this weekend’s death of Arizona Senator John McCain. McCain ran for president twice. His 2000 “Straight Talk Express” mostly by-passed the Iowa Caucuses, but in early 2007 McCain brought his second campaign for the White House to Iowa. He was in Iowa on October 26th of that year. It was the 40th anniversary of his capture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

During an interview with Radio Iowa that day, McCain credited Colonel Bud Day of Sioux City — one of the other P-O-Ws in the “Hanoi Hilton” — with literally saving his life. “Bud Day was the senior ranking officer in almost every situation and he inspired us to do things that we otherwise were incapable of,” McCain said. “And so it’s not that these are bad memories. Many of them are the most wonderful memories of my entire life.”

McCain has written that it was during those years as a P-O-W that he “fell in love with his country” and he voiced the same sentiments during that Radio Iowa interview. “You don’t appreciate America until you’re parted from her company,” McCain told Radio Iowa that day. “And then you really appreciate what a wonderful nation we live in.” Nearly four decades after he returned to American soil, McCain had landed the G-O-P’s presidential nomination. McCain finished fourth in the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, then he kept campaigning here in the spring, summer and fall of 2008.

“I want to be president because I want to inspire a generation of Americans to serve a cause greater than their self-interest,” McCain said in most speeches. At a McCain rally in September of 2008 in Cedar Rapids, a group of protesters began yelling and McCain’s supporters in the crowd started chanting to drown them out. “You know what, my friends? The one thing Americans want us to do is to stop yelling at each other, don’t they?” he asked, chuckling.

McCain returned to the Iowa campaign trail once more, in 2014, to campaign with Joni Ernst. Ernst, who won that U.S. Senate race, this weekend called McCain “a true American hero” and praised his “tenacious spirit.” Senator Ernst said McCain was a mentor who “personified service to our country.” Senator Chuck Grassley also praised McCain’s tenacity and courage, including his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Grassley and McCain have served in the senate for the past 32 years and Grassley noted McCain’s humor, saying McCain often greeted him by saying: “Nothing runs like a Deere” or joking about having a daily glass of ethanol.

McCain was an outspoken critic of what he called “ethanol subsidies.” All four of the Iowans serving in the U.S. House have issued statements on McCain’s passing, describing McCain as a statesman, hero and patriot. Congressman Steve King praised McCain for using “every day of his life in preparation for or actively serving our country. Congressman David Young said McCain was a patriot who “inspired many to give the best they could to make community and country better.”